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Can the Monarchy be abolished? Can Britain fully embrace modernism and become a Republic with an elected Head of State? In order to reach a conclusion I want to consider what it is that "makes the British the last people in the modern world to be subject to the authentic forms of monarchy"(Hitchens, 1990: 6). A good place to begin would be to explore the original justifications for the monarchy . In the feudal age the dominant ideology was the great chain of being. People believed that they were appointed to their station in life by God. Mediaeval monarchs were believed to be God's representatives on earth who possessed special powers beyond the ordinary person. Such ideological beliefs protected the monarchy against envy. The monarch was not hated for his/her powers of authority and privileges. Zigmund Freud argued that the super-ego resolves the issue of envy by supplying an object for identification....

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